Step 1: Paint our beautiful frames.
Step 2: We became artists and drew our self portraits. We set up mirrors so that we could see what we looked like to draw ourselves. This was a lot tougher than we thought.
I quickly learned that we needed to take a step back for some of our littles and have a base for them to work from. I decided to teach the fundamentals like how to draw a circle and talk about our facial features, including our eyes, ears, eye lashes, eye brows, mouth and nose. We talked a lot about what we looked like and what we liked about ourselves and what we like to do for fun. We read the books, "I Like Me" and "The way I Act."
Drumming and Drawing with Teacher James was a hit this week. He showed us many instruments including the bongos which he showed us how to sketch.
Teacher James set us up like a band and we learned to play in a three count. One two three, one two three. Although after we did it a few times we were just so excited to play the instruments hard and loud. Watch out Branham high school marching band! The Blue Room is practicing.
But the most unique instrument was a thunder maker. It sounded so real. The looked like a paper towel holder with a long coil/spring hanging off of it. You had to shake it back and forth and the harder you shook it the launder it got. But if you shook it too hard it didn't sound like thunder. There was definitely some technique involved, but we got it!
What's happening in the afternoon preK class...
We are learning how to use scissors to cut straight and curved lines. Teacher Karen taught us to keep those thumbs up!
Vertical, horizontal and slant are three words that are new to most of our vocabularies. But these three words are very important when we start to learn how to write the letters of the alphabet. We are working on a vertical down line writing from right to left. Also we did some matching this week with shapes and letters. Some things come easy and others are at times a little more tough, but the children accept the challenge and are so proud of themselves when they finish.
And a very special Thank You to J's mom for coming to help us during centers to make our self portraits and play memory shapes with us. She read the children a funny book that got them on their feet moving and laughing.
Over all it was a great week!
Hugs,
Teacher Kristina
